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It’s endless summer here in Ecuador and our paintball season never ends. WAIAKILL – DyeTactical began 2014 training hard and focused on local and international UWL (Ultimate Woodsball League) tournaments, among other events we will attend this year.
We started getting our new 2014 gear in as soon as possible to adjust rapidly to the change. Less weight, smaller size, improved accuracy and air efficiency on our new DM14′s, allowed us to maximize performance and carry more paint in our vests (as UWL has no limit on the amount of paintballs you can bring into the field). Additionally, the macro line was removed from the new DM design, which meant less tangling up with branches and bushes, just as the DAM, which we were already used to since its release last year.

The tournament took place in “Cerro del Muerto” in the town of Playas, Ecuador on the 15 and 16 of February. Besides the tough opponents and intense games, the biggest challenges of this amazing field were the extreme weather conditions. Temperature ranging between 90 to 95F (32-34C), lots of mud, intense sun and humidity to the roof, made it difficult enough just to be there with no gear on. Thanks to the support of our DYE distributor, Luis Neira, we got ahold of enough Dye Pop-up Tents to manage the weather and stay fresh and focused for the games. DYE tech support on site was another of the keys to success.

WAIAKILL – DyeTactical went in the tournament with 3 teams (15 players on each team, 10 on court and 5 replacements).

Each team had 4 games played randomly among all competitors. The two most successful teams went to finals.

WAIAKILL ALPHA won all its games and got a solid 4 – 0 to go into finals. Meanwhile WAIAKILL BRAVO met ALPHA on its third game and got its first loss. In the final match WAIAKILL ALPHA met again with Team Dragones, who barely made it into second place in an extremely close match (4 point difference) with BRAVO, who was favorite to play finals but got in third place.

The final game was not an easy one, mostly because of the exhaustion and tension. Scouts from the two opossing teams went for different flags on the initial run, making it a tie in the first minutes of the match. WAIAKILL ALPHA’S aggressiveness got ahold of the lost flag before the first 10-minute brake and retained it through the entire game. The hooch was found during the second break, adding up more points to the overal score. With both flags and the hooch in our hands, our game was mathematically unreachable. We knew we could go all in for their home flag after the second break and pushed hard to try to end the game early. Dragones defended well and prevented us to advance to their home base flag. After 30 minutes of intense physical effort the game was over and we had won UWL Ecuador first chapter. WAIAKILL BRAVO came in third place, getting WAIAKILL – DyeTactical two places in the podium.

We are now training hard for the second chapter that will take place in Quito, Ecuador, May 3-4. We will try to keep on adding points on UWL’s local and international ranking.

We’ll keep you posted on the advances of UWL and other events.
For pics and vids of this and other tournaments and events follow us @waiakill in Instagram, Tweeter, Facebook and YouTube.

Come meet and share with us at the DYE Store in Living Legends 7, May 16-18.

I’m Nathan McDonnell and I play for Sydney Explicit in the Australian Super 7s Series.

Last month I was invited to go to Melbourne and play for Hard2Overcome (another Dye sponsored team) in the Able Cup – a race to four event hosted by the
Adrenalin Paintball Club. The Able Cup was different from any event I have played in before, as its aim was to raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation. It was very rewarding.

After walking the field Saturday morning and getting our game plan sorted, we were ready to play some paintball. At the end of Saturday’s games we had played 8 rounds and were sitting in second position. An okay place to be, but we still had a lot of work to do as there were still 3 rounds to play on Sunday followed by the finals.

Sunday morning saw us face off against the top of the ladder team South East Cartel. After some back and forth points the game ran out of time and ended in a draw. We won the next round, but we did lose out on the last round of the day. At least it was to our sister team H2O Blue. Despite the loss, it was really good for us as it showed us we had a few flaws in our game plan which we sat down an quickly changed.

At the end of prelims the top four teams were:
South East Cartel
Hard2Overcome
H2O BLUE
HUSTLE

The first final of the afternoon was for 3rd an 4th between H2O Blue and Hustle. It was a close match with both teams swapping the lead, but with time running out it ended in a draw so they were sent into a sudden death 1 on 1. Both players had the crowd on edge with a few close calls and great moves and in the end H2O Blue came away with the win and 3rd place.

The Final for 1st and 2nd place was between South East Cartel and my team H2O. I would like to point out that the two times our teams had previously faced off against each other over the weekend, both games ended in a draw.

The game started off strong with the two teams losing players off the break. We did however get the upper hand and took the 1st point.

The 2nd point started off like the 1st with both teams battling for position and after a few gun battles we came away with a 2-0 lead.

The 3rd point didn’t go the way we wanted with South East Cartel tearing through the field and bringing the game to 2-1.

The next point though, was a real battle. Both teams dug in and fought for every inch of ground. After a few key moves we got the kills and came away with the point making it 3-1 to us. This gave us a massive confidence boost going into the next point.

The last point started off with us shooting 3 of the Cartel guys off the break and then closing it out quickly to come away with a 4-1 WIN.

Needless to say, we were very pleased!

We would like to thank the guys from South East Cartel for a tough final. You guys made us work for every point. We would also like to thank Paintball Addiction for organising and sponsoring the event. And finally, we would like to thank DYE PRECISION and Devon Stutz for sponsoring our team an giving us an LA Ironmen jersey to raffle off. We ended up raising $1542.10 for the Make a Wish Foundation.

Playing with the H2O guys was great fun and they have an awesome and well bonded team. I am really looking forward to the 2014 season as I have been asked to join the H2O roster and have accepted. With H2O I will be playing the PAVS and Race events in Melbourne (but this doesn’t mean I’ve left behind the Sydney events – I will continue with those also).

Thanks again to Dye Precision for all the support over the years and future.

We have come to the end of MY-NPL 2013. 4 Legs at 2 different location, MAPAAC and Dataran Pahlawan Malacca. It leaves us bitter sweet moments looking back now that we have come a long way to achieve what we have been working hard for. Winning the overall Championship title is overwhelming to us, Team DuckSide biggest achievement and hope many more to come.

Thanks to DYE Precision who equip us with such remarkable gear, The DM13 is no doubt is one of the best marker we have ever shot. Thanks DYE representative Weili WU, for being there to support us as well. To our main Sponsor 89 Arena paintball, thank you for believing in us and Team Duckside promise will continue to strive for excellence!

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From 13 to 15 September, in the last stage of the European Championship, Millennium Paintball held a grand event – the World Championship, which was attended by 24 national teams from different continents.

The eight seeded teams ( they are the same – the best teams of their continents) – USA , Canada , Russia , France , Germany , Great Britain, Iran and Malaysia are automatically put in the 1/ 8 finals where their rivals were expecting .

Our team started with the qualification, where rival was to be the Greek national team, but because of absence, Greece received an automatic loss, and our team came in top eight.

At the stage of eighth Ukrainian, our team got a difficult opponent, one of the best teams in Europe, the German team, represented by two teams of pro- division. In spite of this, the Ukrainian team was able to demonstrate his best game and won the confidence of Germans 4-1, which was a particular sensation. The Belgians also created a sensation by beating the best team in Europe, the Russian team 4-1!

In the final quarter of Ukrainians went to a familiar rival, the French national team, with which our team played in the group stage of the European Championship. A few lingering gameness Ukrainians do not have enough experience only to realize their numerical advantage and bring the match to win! Ukraine has lost, but lost her dignity and the game was worthy of respect, even fans of the French team! The final eighth place in the world among teams; let us look to the future with quite a degree of optimism!

At the last stage of the championship no serious problems are not solved. Position in the ranking does not augur well for the prize, exactly as the relegation zone was not close. The task was to go as far as possible in the standings on stage.

On the first day, the game was made up of a minimum, and the team with two wins almost secured a way out of the group. Do no harm, thus, did not work. The command «Hellwood Paris “, thanks to defeat us had left the group and was not able to keep second place rating, which allowed them to qualify for the Pro. With a team of «Warsaw United” a similar story. Our victory over them did not give them the opportunity to leave the group and get a chance to stay in the division SPL next season.

In the 1/8 finals we crossed with the team “Freestyle” from Russia. We have played with them this season, and in a very intense match, losing in the course were able to win 0-3 4-3.

This time, unfortunately, did not. The match turned out to be interesting, but many penalties in our team was not allowed to put this game in the category of very interesting! Six penalties for four games and losing the team «Hulk.”

As a result of the season, the team is located exactly in the middle of the standings. This is an appropriate occasion for reflection and restructuring in the team for next season!

Thanks to everyone who supported us, sponsored, and helped! Separate bow to our permanent partners the DYE Company and Autoradio.